RFR: 8293337: Store method handle intrinsics in AOT cache [v6]

[Ashutosh Mehra]

On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 00:52:52 GMT, Ioi Lam <iklam at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This is the 5th PR for [JEP 483: Ahead-of-Time Class Loading & Linking](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8315737).
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>> This PR is necessary to support [JDK-8293336: AOT-linking of invokedynamic for lambda expression and string concat](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8293336), which needs to store Java heap objects that have native pointers to the C++ `Method` objects  returned by `SystemDictionary::find_method_handle_intrinsic()` 
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>> These `Method` objects are created within the JVM. They do not belong to any actual Java classes. We store all these `Method` objects into the AOT cache, so that they can be referenced by other artifacts in the AOT cache.
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>> See [here](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8315737) for the sequence of dependent RFEs for implementing JEP 483.
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> Ioi Lam has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains 294 additional commits since the last revision:
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>  - Merge branch 'jep-483-step-04-8293187-support-sun-invoke-util-wrapper-in-cds-archive-heap' into jep-483-step-05-8293337-archive-method-handle-intrinsics
>  - Merge branch 'jep-483-step-03-8329706-implement-xx-aot-class-linking' of /jdk3/yak/open into jep-483-step-04-8293187-support-sun-invoke-util-wrapper-in-cds-archive-heap
>  - Merge branch 'jep-483-step-02-8338018-rename-class-prelinker-to-aot-cp-resolver' into jep-483-step-03-8329706-implement-xx-aot-class-linking
>  - Merge branch 'jep-483-step-01-8338017-add-aot-command-line-aliases' into jep-483-step-02-8338018-rename-class-prelinker-to-aot-cp-resolver
>  - Merge branch 'master' into jep-483-step-01-8338017-add-aot-command-line-aliases
>  - 8339895: Open source several AWT focus tests - series 3
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>    Reviewed-by: prr
>  - 8339192: Native annotation parsing code of deprecated annotations causes crash
>    
>    Reviewed-by: jrose, mgronlun
>  - 8340480: Bad copyright notices in changes from JDK-8339902
>    
>    Reviewed-by: kcr, bpb, kizune
>  - 8340353: Remove CompressedOops::ptrs_base
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>    Reviewed-by: stefank, coleenp, shade, mli
>  - 8339902: Open source couple TextField related tests
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>    Reviewed-by: honkar
>  - ... and 284 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/compare/dd5c7592...59dd8879

lgtm!

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Marked as reviewed by asmehra (Committer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20959#pullrequestreview-2338744323